“I think it’s an excellent decision,” he told Drive Time. “I think they should lock him in a room until he signs it. It’s a no-brainer if you’re looking for footballers.

“If he wants to be at the club he will be. Luis Suarez will decide that, not anybody else.

“Liverpool don’t want to get rid of him. They don’t want him to go. He and Steven Gerrard are the two iconic players at the football club at the moment and they want them to stay there for as long as they want to be there.

“I think any football club would be much better off if they’ve got Luis Suarez. He’s a fantastic player. He’s had a couple of problems but if you judge him purely on football, which we should be doing, then he is a fantastic footballer. There is no football club who would say no to Luis Suarez.”

And when asked if Liverpool should keep the striker after his misdemeanours in a red shirt, Dalglish snapped back: “I think he should be a Liverpool player, why shouldn’t he be? He is not the first person who has had a couple of indiscretions to stay at the football club.”